The Teacher and The Student

Patricia Duncker teaches on the godfather of UK creative writing courses – the MA at the University of East Anglia. Here she offers behind the scenes insights into a course that boasts the glitziest alumni in the UK, including Trezza Azzopardi and Ian McEwan. Meanwhile, novelist and editor Jill Dawson, a former student on the Sheffield Hallam Creative Writing MA who has gone on to achieve great things, writes about how she felt studying creative writing affected her work.

Different Strokes

The teaching of creative writing comes in many different shapes and sizes. In a bold and innovative move to reach the widest and most diverse of communities, trAce director Sue Thomas writes about her organisations challenging internet based creative writing projects. Writer, critic and creative writing tutor Russell Celyn Jones explores the different approaches to the teaching of creative writing in the US and what the UK can learn from it all.

Is It All Good News?

David Flusfeder explores the financial relationship between teaching creative writing and the artistic practise itself. Going where most writers are too scared to go, he boldly questions the existence of these courses. Novelist David Peace is less than convinced by the proponents of creative writing courses. Read some interesting advice on alternative options and a different approach to producing that prize-winning novel.

creative writing, British Council style

In a round up of three of the British Council’s most pioneering and adventurous projects, Graham Mort looks at the challenges of cross-cultural distance learning. Kamila Shamsie discusses a multi-nation creative writing project, beginning in Pakistan and continuing on to Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East and Danila Beloglavec tells of how they’re animating their literature, their readers and their writers in Slovenia.

Writers Talk Books

In our regular feature on who’s reading what, four of the UK’s sparkiest and shiniest literary lights share their recent literary leanings with us. Read about what Louise Doughty, Maggie Gee, Michael Holroyd and Courttia Newland have recently been inspired by.

Northern Irish Writing

Ian Sansom is a recent immigrant to Northern Ireland, and delighted to be surrounded by a wealth of literary talent. Here he shares with us his thoughts on the great and the good of Northern Irish writing, from the early 20th century through to the early 21st century.

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Beard, Richard – Dry Bones Secker & Warburg 2004 £10.99 ISBN 0-436-27738-7 HBK

Hal Zina Bennett – Write From the Heart: Unleashing the Power of Your Creativity New World Library 2001 £11.99 PBK

Boylan, Clare – Emma Brown Abacus 2004 £6.99 ISBN 0-349-11672-5 PBK

Carter, Ronald & McRae, John – The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing Routledge 2003 £8.99 ISBN 0-415-28637-9 PBK

Cartwright, Julian – The Promise of Happiness Bloomsbury 2004 £16.99 ISBN 0-7475-7034-5 HBK

Charles, Paul – The Justice Factory Do-Not Press 2004 £7.99 ISBN 1-904316-33-6 PBK

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Charles, Paul – Last Boat to Camden Town Do-Not Press 1998 £7.00 ISBN 1-899344-30-6 PBK

Clamp, Paula – Beetlemania Poolbeg Press 2003 £ 6.99 ISBN 1-84223-090-5 PBK

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Harris, Robert – Pompeii Hutchinson 2004 £17.99 ISBN 0-09-177925-1 HBK

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